South Central Public Health Partnership

Environmental Public Health Online Courses (EPHOC)



Log on at the South Central Partnership Web siteExternal Web Site Icon

The Jefferson County Department of Health’s Environmental Services (JCDH), the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the National Environmental Health Association and CDC / NCEH’s Environmental Health Services Branch partnered to develop a comprehensive online/on-demand package of courses for environmental public health practitioners. The goal of this partnership is to provide access to comprehensive, worthwhile and affordable and workforce development resources for practitioners in environmental public health. This has been a major issue of concern across the United States for the past decade or more.

EPHOC courses are taught by a group of environmental public health subject-matter experts from across the country. The list below shows the 15 courses and instructors for the total of over 45 hours of training. The instructor group is a mix of academic professors and Environmental Public Health practitioners in several different agency settings who planned their courses, determined their instructional formats, and created “lecture-style” presentations. Each course includes a pretest, a number of individual 40- to 60-minute modules, and a posttest. Course content includes information on various roles and responsibilities of environmental public health staff.

Target audiences are

* New-hire environmental public health professional with a science major BS
* Individuals preparing for a state or national credential exam
* Environmental health and other students
* Environmental public health professionals wanting to improve their technical knowledge

NEHA will award preapproved continuing education credit for each course successfully completed.

Read about EPHOC: A New Training Resource for the Environmental Public Health Workforce Adobe PDF file [PDF - 195 KB] in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health [http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/Docs/JEH/2010/Mar_EPHOC.pdf].

CDC - EHS - EPHOC - Environmental Public Health Online Courses
CDC - EHS - EPHOC - Environmental Public Health Online Courses


South Central Public Health Partnership